RSVIEW PRODUCT PROFILE

VISUALIZATION SOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED

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VISUALIZATION SOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED

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Make process or business decisions more quickly, react to situations faster,
and interact with processes or machines in a more intuitive way.
 Manufacturing enterprises around the globe
are constantly being challenged to improve
the efficiency of their operations and increase
profitability. Visualization tools present
information that allows you to make process
or business decisions more quickly, react to
situations faster, and interact with processes
or machines in a more intuitive way.
But how do you know the optimal way to
achieve your goals?
• Are you trying to decrease your
development time?
• Do you want more flexibility?
• Are you trying to optimize productivity
while improving efficiencies?
• Is the information you receive helping
you make the best decisions… in a
timely manner?

View the Right Information at the

Right Place, and at the Right Time

The RSView® Enterprise software

suite of visualization tools holds
the solution to these problems…
and much more!

RSView Enterprise Series from

Rockwell Software is a line of
HMI software products designed
with a common look, feel, and
navigation to help speed HMI
application development and
training. RSView Enterprise Series
is part of the scalable and unified
suite of monitoring and control
solutions that spans machine-level
to supervisory-level applications.
It also works across multiple
platforms virtually anywhere
in your manufacturing enterprise,
allowing you to view the right
information, at the right place,
and at the right time.

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VISUALIZATION SOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED
Visualization tools are
commonly associated with
day-to-day plant operations.
Your visualization tools
should also provide a way
to take you from design
through installation and still
give you the flexibility to
maintain or update your
system effectively.
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The RSView Enterprise Series software
suite encompasses stand-alone machine-level
applications up through distributed supervisory-
level HMI applications. This visualization solution
provides value from initial design and installation
through operations and on-going maintenance of
the system.
DESIGN
REDUCE DEVELOPMENT TIME AND
COST & REDUCE TIME-TO-MARKET
In the design phase, RSView® Studio™ offers users
of RSView® Supervisory Edition™ (RSView SE)
and RSView® Machine Edition™ (RSView ME) a
single, common design environment in which to
create applications. With RSView Studio, you can
save time by:
• Re-using entire applications or portions of
applications from RSView ME to RSView SE.
• Referencing existing controller tags in RSView
without the need to duplicate tags which is
common with other HMI systems.
• Using the many powerful graphic editing and
productivity tools.
• Extending and customizing RSView SE with
Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA).
Rockwell Automation’s Integrated Architecture
simplifies your efforts when using both RSView
and Rockwell Automation controllers. It offers:
• Premium integration and preferred
connectivity for Allen-Bradley® PLCs through
RSLinx® Enterprise™.
• Extended connectivity to other PLC vendors
through OPC. Rockwell Automation offers
KEPServer Enterprise to provide communication
between many third-party industrial devices
and RSView.
INSTALL
IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY & REDUCE START-
UP/COMMISSIONING TIME AND COST
In the installation phase, RSView Enterprise
Series provides you flexibility while deploying
your applications and gets your production
running sooner. RSView gives you:
• Options to deploy your application on a
variety of platforms suitable for plant floor
environments, including dedicated, semi-open
and open computers.
• One user interface for communicating with
Rockwell Automation and other devices.
• The option to simulate runtime to validate
changes before applying them to the system.
• The ability to edit graphic displays once
and have the changes reflected at clients
throughout the entire supervisory system.
– Manage access to graphic displays. In addition,
RSView SE lets you manage access to
individual commands, macros, and HMI tags
in an application. Manages who can carry out
what actions upon which secured resources
from where.
FACILITATE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
RSView Enterprise includes tools and features
that enable compliance with industry and
government regulations. During operations you
can view diagnostic information about system
activity while developing and running
applications.
• Comply with mandatory audit trail requirements
by capturing and archiving operator actions and
changes that occur to the system.
• Control access to tags and commands through
electronic signature capability in RSView SE.

OPERATE OPTIMIZE MACHINE SET-UP & CHANGEOVER

The operate phase also includes the
OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND following benefits:
INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
• Evaluate system status with informative graphical
In the operate phase, RSView Enterprise enables
displays to enable operators to make better and
optimization of machines and operations and
more timely decisions.
reduces machine downtime for greater
productivity. With RSView you can: • Access manuals, drawings, and embedded
videos online to increase operator efficiency.
• Increase plant floor efficiency
• Utilize recipe management to easily change
– Optimize plant communications
operational information.
through RSLinx Enterprise for increased
production efficiency.
– View operating parameters with real-time
and historical trending.
– Maximize uptime with redundancy in
supervisory systems – RSView SE supports
both HMI and data server redundancy.
• Maintain security
– Prevent unauthorized access to certain parts
of the application, or to the application itself
with RSAssetSecurity™.

FOR ALL PHASES OF YOUR OPERATIONS

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 MAINTAIN

IMPROVE YOUR BOTTOM LINE

In the maintain phase, RSView reduces your total
cost of ownership and improves your access to
diagnostic information. RSView allows you to:
• Maximize uptime
Get connected with FactoryTalk
– Alert operators to critical alarm conditions
RSView Supervisory Edition and and maintain a record of alarm status for
RSView Machine Edition are built on historical access.
Rockwell Software’s FactoryTalk® platform. – Display system documentation including
FactoryTalk is a collaborative framework mechanical drawings, electrical/cable
that allows everyone in a manufacturing diagrams, maintenance procedures, allowing
for faster response time to specific alarms
enterprise to share real-time information or events.
and communicate effectively. Shop-floor
• Collaborate maintenance activities
operators and engineers can keep lines
– Utilize remote connection between OEMs
moving more smoothly, plant managers and end users to monitor applications and
can increase production efficiency, reduce troubleshooting costs.
and executives can make well-informed – Use RSView Studio with distributed RSView SE
decisions. Share the right information projects to enable application access for
with the right people wherever they are. multiple local and remote users.

RSVIEW STUDIO Benefits

Both RSView Supervisory Edition and • Common design environment for

RSView Machine Edition share a common
design environment called RSView Studio,
which allows users to create applications in
a single design environment. RSView Studio
supports editing and reusing projects for
improved portability between embedded
machine and supervisory HMI systems.
RSView ME and RSView SE
• Re-use machine-level HMI applications
in large-scale RSView SE distributed HMI
systems, reducing development and
training time.
• Create displays using a full-featured
Graphics Editor.
• Configure multiple language versions of
an application easily with the capability
of switching application languages
dynamically at runtime.

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RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION
RSView Supervisory Edition’s revolutionary
architecture allows users to access plant
information at any time! RSView SE
distributed servers provide local control for
real-time operations, while making crucial
information available to supervisors and
executives. Since each RSView SE client can
view information from any and all RSView
SE servers, each user receives all the
information he needs to perform his job
more effectively. While operators are
viewing information pertinent to their areas
of the process, supervisors and executives
are viewing the information they need to
make important decisions about their
manufacturing process.
RSVIEW MACHINE EDITION
RSView Machine Edition is a machine-level
HMI product for developing and supporting
PC-based and embedded operator interface
solutions. It is designed as a monitoring
and control system for individual machines
and small processes. RSView ME expands
the scope of traditional machine-level HMI
development from dedicated devices to
a much broader scale that includes open
Windows CE solutions and Windows
desktop operating systems. With RSView ME
software, a single HMI application can be
created once in RSView Studio, downloaded
to a variety of machine-level hardware
platforms and operating systems, and then
run without any modifications.
RSView Machine Edition runs on PanelView
Plus and VersaView CE operator terminals,
as well as VersaView industrial computers
and desktop computers running Windows
operating systems.
Benefits
• Common look and feel with RSView ME
provided by RSView Studio
• Stand-alone and distributed, scalable
architecture for supervisory-level applications
• Preferred connectivity with
Rockwell Automation/OPC controllers
• Remote and multi-user configuration
• Direct referencing of control tags
• Customizable through client-side VBA
• Central, system-wide alarm and
activity logging
• HMI server redundancy
• RSLinx® and OPC data server redundancy
• Migration from RSView®32™
Benefits
• Common look and feel with RSView SE
provided by RSView Studio
• Ideal for monitoring or controlling
individual machines or small processes
• Preferred connectivity with Rockwell
Automation controllers
• Provides enhanced connectivity with
third-party controllers and networks
through KEPServer Enterprise.
• Direct referencing of controller tags
• Rich graphics & animation for displaying
machine status & diagnostics
• Advanced machine-level HMI features
such as recipe, language switching,
global objects, trending and more
• Migration from PanelView standard
and enhanced
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troubleshoot technical problems.

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SUPPORT
provides a suite of offerings that improve the
productivity of your staff by giving them the Through our global Customer Support network,
skills, competency and learning aids to maintain Rockwell Automation provides world-class
today's advanced automation technologies and phone, on-site and electronic technical support
industrial software applications. Performance for a wide range of Rockwell Software products.
based Instructor Led Training, whether standard You can obtain around-the-clock automation
Open Enrollment, Tailored or Custom, imparts expertise and resources for the following:
optimum knowledge retention while Self Paced
• Installing and configuring software
Training, in the form of Web based training
(Rockwell Automation University On-line) or • Obtaining software revisions
CD-Rom based training (RSTrainer® series) • Troubleshooting operating problems
refreshes the core skills. This reinforcement, • Performing programming tasks
coupled with practice and application via
• Design, operate, and maintain solutions
Workstations or Job Aids, provides immediate
performance support and ensures critical on • Customize and integrate solutions with your
the job execution. For more details, refer to existing automation and business systems
www.rockwellautomation.com/training
Rockwell’s consultants, instructors, and support
engineers have the product expertise and
application experience to help you achieve and
maintain an optimal production environment.

For more information about Rockwell

Automation Customer Support Services, go to
www.rockwellautomation.com/support

RSView Studio, RSView Supervisory Edition, and RSView Machine Edition are trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc.
RSView, FactoryTalk, and RSLinx are registered trademarks of Rockwell Automation, Inc.

All trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective companies.

Publication RSVIEW-BR001A-EN-P – May 2005 Copyright ©2005 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA.